On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:10:12PM +0800, Jason Hsu wrote: > What are the appropriate partitions for using Debian on a PowerPC? > So far, my partitioning experience has been limited to Puppy Linux > and Damn Small Linux on a PC. Does a PowerPC require certain things > that a PC does not?
Don't know what specific model you use, but IIRC, this page - earlier I think it was hosted somewhere else - helped me a lot on 2 differnet Powerbooks: http://neugierig.org/content/tibook/ibook.html > > What partitions are you using on your PowerPC? ----------------------------------------------- # /sbin/mac-fdisk -l /dev/hda /dev/hda # type name length base ( size ) system /dev/hda1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 ( 31.5k) Partition map /dev/hda2 Apple_Bootstrap untitled 1954 @ 64 (977.0k) NewWorld bootblock /dev/hda3 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 root 58593751 @ 2018 ( 27.9G) Linux native /dev/hda4 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 4296876 @ 308284932 ( 2.0G) Linux swap /dev/hda5 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 home 249689163 @ 58595769 (119.1G) Linux native Block size=512, Number of Blocks=312581808 DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0 ----------------------------------------------- HTH Best Regards Wolfgang -- http://heelsbroke.wordpress.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org